Since before 2016 Elon Musk has told people his vehicle is ready to drive itself, and he very notoriously has told owners they can sleep at the wheel.

Musk estimated that by the middle of 2020, Tesla’s autonomous system will have improved to the point where drivers will not have to pay attention to the road. […] “A year from now, we’ll have over a million cars with full self-driving, software… everything.” These cars will be Level 5 autonomy with no geofence, which is a fancy way of saying they will be capable of driving themselves anywhere on the planet, under all possible conditions, with no limitations.

It has always been a dangerous lie.

A Pennsylvania man hit another driver, along with construction signage, while asleep behind the wheel of a self-driving Tesla. On Friday, April 11, around 4:20 p.m., an unnamed driver was traveling west on U.S. Route 22.

According to police, the driver was asleep at the wheel and using Tesla’s self-driving feature to navigate. While the car was self-driving, it hit the driver’s side of another vehicle before driving into a sign that was up to signify a construction zone.

Perhaps, most notably for Q1 sales numbers, Elon Musk said at the start of 2025 at CES that his software would eliminate all crashes this year.

Instead, Tesla vehicles in 2025 have continued crashing – side-swiping other cars, colliding with each other, running red lights, and hitting buses and trucks broadside.

Update April 15, it ran a red light and killed two:

Atlanta police said a Tesla carrying five people crashed into the side of a box truck after running a red light at the intersection. Police said the 21-year-old man driving the Tesla and a 23-year-old woman riding in the car were not alert, conscious or breathing, and were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names have not been released.

The video news from Georgia shows a Tesla tried to drive under a truck trailer again.

One person is dead and others are critically injured after a multi-vehicle crash in Midtown Monday morning. Piedmont Avenue and Monroe Drive are shut down in both directions as emergency crews respond to the scene outside of Smith Park. One of the vehicles appears to be a white Tesla and another is a box truck.

Ran a red light and crashed into the broadside of a huge truck? Same thing that happened yesterday in California.

These crashes have hallmarks of Tesla’s rough and early “AI” system getting worse by the day.

Crosswalk robots, meant to inform the public of when it’s safe to avoid being killed by road robots, were modified to mock Zuck and Musk with satirical messaging.

For example:

…Saturday morning at the corner of Arguello Street, Broadway and Marshall Street in Redwood City, a voice claiming to be Zuckerberg says that “it’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.”

Or this one:

You know, people keep saying cancer is bad, but have you tried being a cancer? It’s f—— awesome.

The future is here!

I mean hear for yourself, in front of the iconic Palo Alto Apple store:

And more:

Something doesn’t add up again with Tesla, given one just accelerated against a red light straight into the side of a giant bus.

A man and his passenger in a speeding Tesla were killed Saturday when the car ran a red light in Fullerton, triggering a crash that involved an Orange County Transit Authority bus, authorities said.

The collision took place around 6:45 a.m. Saturday near Orangethorpe Avenue and State College Boulevard, the Fullerton Police Department reported.

Moral of this story may be that riding the bus gives some protection from Tesla operating as a constant public safety threat.